June 22 2022<\/p>\n
Back in Shenandoah NP we noticed the battery was not charging as fast as it should from driving, then a few days later the inverter died, also with the dead inverter the battery will not charge from shore power, what we don’t know is if the 2 are related and won’t know until we get the new inverter installed – Friday hopefully. With the new inverter the battery should charge from shore power so even if there is another problem with the charging system we can still keep the battery charged and run the AC, something we were afraid to do with the dead inverter.<\/p>\n
Our rough plan had been to head down to Savannah GA and spend the day with our son. So with no inverter and the battery not charging as good as it should we still headed south, 2 days later in the extreme heat we realized that was a BAD idea, we had been in contact with the makers of the inverter and had considered having it sent to my sisters house in Florida, it turns out we didn’t have the proper paperwork with us to have the inverter sent to my sisters house (or sent anywhere) so we headed back to Indiana to get the paperwork out of storage.<\/p>\n
Turned out to be a good thing we turned around, because the part is shipping from CA and won’t be here until Friday at the earliest and Mary has a DR appointment at the end of the month so that could have put us in a bind if anything went wrong with the delivery getting back to Indiana.<\/p>\n
UPDATE (6\/26\/2022.) On Thursday the Friday delivery got pushed back until Monday requiring yet another night in a hotel. Then this morning as if some fluke of magic we found out that the inverter was delivered Saturday afternoon so we spent Sunday morning installing the inverter while not really hard, it was HOT, \u00a0but we survived and we now have a working inverter and the battery is up to 100% after moving to a campground, the first time it’s been 100% since we entered Shenandoah NP.<\/p>\n
While waiting for the inverter we purchased a vent cover for the vent fan. Currently the fan shuts down when it rains which is a good idea but you don’t get any air circulation then. So after reading there directions one day I got out all the tools required for the job. \u00a0The directions called for drilling 2 different sized holes and needing a wrench, screwdriver, and a pencil along with the tools. \u00a0I climbed the ladder and received a pleasant surprise. The fan installed was pre milled to accept the vent cover, less than 5 minutes later I was done and climbing down the ladder. It took longer to get everything out and to put back up than it did to clip the vent cover in place.<\/p>\n\n\t\t